De Gaulle realized at the time the defining importance of the British decision to acquire Polaris from the United States rather than to develop a British equivalent of the Force de frappe: It convinced him that Britain's orientation would always be dangerously Atlanticist.

4) That is, Schroder is very different from Helmut Kohl as concerns German-American relations, and his source of power and influence in German politics differs from those of his Atlanticist predecessors.

He acknowledged the Atlanticist approach to be "rational, pragmatic, and natural: that's where the credits are, that's where the aid is, and that's where the advanced technology is," but warned that a policy of pragmatism unleavened "by a healthy idealism will most likely degenerate into cynicism.

But my contention is also broader: it is that the people of the United States and Europe constitute a single transnational ethical community, an Atlanticist community--first and foremost, because of their insistence on settling their disputes peacefully.

Balfour's international strategies strike one as belonging to the chess-game variety of diplomacy, constantly balancing on the tight rope of compromise, playing off an ally's or a foe's strengths and weaknesses, always with British strategic interests and needs to the fore and, where possible, tying to draw the United States into a strong Atlanticist alliance.

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